The Rust Programming Language

Overview

Rust is a general purpose, low level programming language created by Mozilla. It was designed as a systems programming language with an emphasis on being safe, concurrent and practical. Its syntax is similar to C++, but it practices better memory safety while maintaining performance. Developers praise it for its speed and safety. It was recently awarded the title of ’most loved programming language’ in the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.

Rust is perceived as the brainchild of Mozilla that promises fast, efficient, and memory safe systems programming. With the increase in the reports of large security threats to sensitive computer systems, cyber thefts and hacking, the need for a safe programming like Rust has increased. This Rust Programming Language course is aimed at programmers and code editors who want to add another tool to their programming skill set. This course will provide you with a thorough understanding of Rust, of memory management in general, and of systems programming specifically. After starting with an extensive overview of Rust fundamentals, you will be able to dive into more advanced features like vectors, generics, tuples, ownership borrowing and crates. Module ’challenges’ throughout this course will help put your knowledge to the test, and video walk throughs, and code downloads are available as well. Upon this course completion, you will be well placed to begin or further your knowledge of similar languages like C++, and you can impress potential employers with your expertise in safe code.

Course Curriculum

1: Introduction To The Course

2: Environment

3: Language Fundamentals I

4: Language Fundamentals Ii

5: Option & Vectors

6: Strings, Tuples, Functions

7: Ownership, Borrowing, Crates

Learning outcomes

• Lock Down a Low Level Language
• Learn to program in Rust
• Understand Rust’s memory management abilities
• Get to grips with a systems programming language
• Create highly concurrent, safe systems
• Increase your coding skill set
• Learn how to make systems Programming Safe

Access duration

The course will be directly delivered to you, and you have 12 months access to the online learning platform from the date you joined the course.  The course is self-paced and you can complete it in stages, revisiting the lectures at any time.

Who is this course aimed at?

• IT students
• Job seekers
• IT professionals 

Method of assessment

At the end of the course, you will have one assignment to be submitted (you need a mark of 65% to pass) and you can submit the assignment at any time. You will only need to pay £19 for assessment and certification when you submit the assignment. You will receive the results within 72 hours of submittal, and will be sent a certificate in 7-14 days if you have successfully passed.

Certification and awarding body

Those who successfully complete the course will be awarded The Rust programming language certificate by CPD & iAP. The qualification will make you valuable to employers, and your motivation at gaining new skills will be recognised.

Tutor info

Brett Romero is a software engineer and entrepreneur. He has started several businesses, including Bitesize Business School, where he writes about applying business principles to the real world and solving technology issues that every online business faces. His first business, Cygen, was a web design consulting business, from which he also created his first product – a JavaScript-based chatroom web application.

Brett has written desktop applications in languages running from Delphi to C# winforms/WPF, as well as built ASP.NET webforms and MVC based applications. When the iOS SDK was first introduced, he bought a Macbook and began building apps for the iPhone. He currently has seven apps in the iTunes App Store.

Brett holds an MBA from ASU (’14). His undergraduate major was in mathematics. Before graduating, he decided to get a business degree. He continued taking mathematics courses at the University of Washington after completing his undergraduate degree.

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